Production and Operation Management MCQs and Notes

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Ranjeet • 34.60K Points
Instructor I

Q 11. Productivity tends to be more difficult to improve in the service sector because the work is _________________.

(A) often difficult to automate .

(B) typically labor intensive .

(C) frequently individually processed and customised.

(D) often an intellectual task performed by professionals.

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Praveen Singh • 36.81K Points
Coach

Q 12. The service sector has lower productivity improvements than the manufacturing sector because ___________.

(A) the service sector uses less skilled labor than manufacturing .

(B) the quality of output is lower in services than manufacturing .

(C) services usually are labor intensive .

(D) service sector productivity is hard to measure .

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Praveen Singh • 36.81K Points
Coach

Q 13. Productivity can be improved by __________.

(A) increasing inputs while holding outputs steady .

(B) decreasing outputs while holding inputs steady .

(C) increasing inputs and outputs in the same proportion .

(D) decreasing inputs while holding outputs steady .

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Rakesh Kumar • 28.44K Points
Instructor II

Q 14. Which of the following inputs has the greatest potential to increase productivity?

(A) labor .

(B) globalization .

(C) management .

(D) capital .

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Vinay • 28.75K Points
Instructor II

Q 15. The total of all outputs produced by the transformation process divided by the total of the inputs is __________.

(A) utilization .

(B) greater in manufacturing than in services .

(C) defined only for manufacturing firms .

(D) multi-factor productivity .

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Ranjeet • 34.60K Points
Instructor I

Q 16. Productivity measurement is complicated by _____________.

(A) the competition\s output .

(B) the fact that precise units of measure are often unavailable .

(C) stable quality .

(D) the workforce size .

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Ram Sharma • 193.86K Points
Coach

Q 17. Capacity decisions have a direct influence on performance of production system in respect of ________

(A) delivery performance

(B) quality control

(C) plant size

(D) manpower

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Vijay Sangwan • 28.62K Points
Instructor II

Q 18. Current trends in operations management include all of the following except ______.

(A) just-in-time performance.

(B) rapid product development.

(C) mass customization.

(D) mass production.

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Vikash Gupta • 33.56K Points
Instructor I

Q 19. Budgeting, paying the bills, and collection of funds are activities associated with the _________________.

(A) management function.

(B) control function.

(C) finance/accounting function.

(D) production/operations function.

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Rakesh Kumar • 28.44K Points
Instructor II

Q 20. The first activity of purchasing cycle is _________.

(A) communicating requirement to the purchase.

(B) source selection and development.

(C) recognizing the need for procurement.

(D) inspection of goods.